Bard envisions the liberal arts institution as the hub of a network, rather than a single, self-contained campus. Numerous institutes for special study are available on and off campus, connecting Bard students to the greater community.

The Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College embodies the fundamental belief that education and civil society are inextricably linked. In an age of information overload, it is more important than ever that citizens be educated and trained to think critically and be actively engaged with issues affecting public life.

Public Debate: Resolved: Online Education Will Save Higher Education

Tuesday, October 1, 20137 pm

RKC103Please join us for an exciting public debate inspired by the topic of this year's Hannah Arendt Center Conference, "Failing Fast: The Educated Citizen in Crisis." The debate will feature both Bard Debate Union members as well as Bard College faculty on the topic, "Resolved: online education will save higher education." Sponsored by the Hannah Arendt Center, the Bard Debate Union, the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, and the International Debate Education Association. Sponsored by: Bard Debate Union, International Debate Education Assoc.; Center for Civic Engagement; Hannah Arendt Center.

A Conversation with Juan González

Author of Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America

Wednesday, October 2, 20136:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis CinemaWe are all Americans of the New World, and our most dangerous enemies are not each other, but the great wall of ignorance between us. --Juan González, Harvest of Empire Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project; Human Rights Project; LAIS Program; La Voz, LASO, and ISO; Spanish Studies.

Failing Fast: The Educated Citizen in Crisis

Sixth Annual Fall Conference

Thursday, October 3, 2013 – Friday, October 4, 201310 am – 6:30 pm

Olin Hall

“Failing Fast: The Educated Citizen in Crisis” asks how we can re-invigorate the cultural and educational institutions that have nurtured public-spiritedness that is the bedrock virtue of American constitutional democracy. In an increasingly global world, do we need a common public language? Is college education necessary for engaged citizenship? Should politically involved citizens have knowledge of the arts and practical skills like building and fixing things? What, in the 21st century, is an educated citizen?

Failing Fast: The Educated Citizen in Crisis

Sixth Annual Fall Conference

Thursday, October 3, 2013 – Friday, October 4, 201310 am – 6:30 pm

Olin Hall

“Failing Fast: The Educated Citizen in Crisis” asks how we can re-invigorate the cultural and educational institutions that have nurtured public-spiritedness that is the bedrock virtue of American constitutional democracy. In an increasingly global world, do we need a common public language? Is college education necessary for engaged citizenship? Should politically involved citizens have knowledge of the arts and practical skills like building and fixing things? What, in the 21st century, is an educated citizen?

Christianity as World Religion, from Constantine the Great to Elizabeth I

Friday, October 4, 201312:30–1:30 pm

St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Rd. Barrytown, NY

When the Roman Empire changed its view of Christianity, from persecuting it as a *superstitio* to accepting that it was a *religio*, the Church acclaimed Constantine as an agent of God. He returned the favor by a steady increase of privileges for Catholics, until the Empire became a Christian preserve. Once the connection between Church and State was forged, however, it provoked a series of unintended consequences that included the Reformation. That process saw the emergence of a Protestant empire at odds with Catholic claimants to the mantle of Constantine.

The lecture series begins on Friday, October 4, and continues on thefollowing Fridays: October 11, 18, 25, and November 1. All lectures in the series are sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Theology and take place at the Church of St. John the Evangelist at 1114 River Road, Barrytown, NY. Lunch is at noon consisting of soup, bread, dessert, coffee and tea at a cost of $6.00. The presentation begins at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.

Written and performed by Nilaja Sun; directed by Hal Brooks

Friday, October 4, 20137:30 pm

Actress and writer Nilaja Sun is a teaching artist at a high school in the Bronx, where every day the students face huge challenges in simply coming to school. She directed them in a play, and their trials and triumphs form the basis of No Child... In this remarkable solo performance, Sun herself takes all the parts, transforming into the students, teachers, parents, administrators, janitors, and security guards who inhabit our public schools and shape the future of America.

An award-winning hit that played off-Broadway for more than a year, No Child... is a virtuosic performance, joyous and heart-wrenching. In Sun’s words, “I created this piece to be a snapshot from the trenches, something entertaining and provocative that’ll get people talking about the state of our public schools.”

No Child...

Written and performed by Nilaja Sun; directed by Hal Brooks

Saturday, October 5, 20137:30 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterTickets: $25, $5 for all students

Actress and writer Nilaja Sun is a teaching artist at a high school in the Bronx, where every day the students face huge challenges in simply coming to school. She directed them in a play, and their trials and triumphs form the basis of No Child... In this remarkable solo performance, Sun herself takes all the parts, transforming into the students, teachers, parents, administrators, janitors, and security guards who inhabit our public schools and shape the future of America.

An award-winning hit that played off-Broadway for more than a year, No Child... is a virtuosic performance, joyous and heart-wrenching. In Sun’s words, “I created this piece to be a snapshot from the trenches, something entertaining and provocative that’ll get people talking about the state of our public schools.”

No Child...

Written and performed by Nilaja Sun; directed by Hal Brooks

Sunday, October 6, 20132 pm

Fisher Center, LUMA TheaterTickets: $25, $5 for all students

Actress and writer Nilaja Sun is a teaching artist at a high school in the Bronx, where every day the students face huge challenges in simply coming to school. She directed them in a play, and their trials and triumphs form the basis of No Child... In this remarkable solo performance, Sun herself takes all the parts, transforming into the students, teachers, parents, administrators, janitors, and security guards who inhabit our public schools and shape the future of America.

An award-winning hit that played off-Broadway for more than a year, No Child... is a virtuosic performance, joyous and heart-wrenching. In Sun’s words, “I created this piece to be a snapshot from the trenches, something entertaining and provocative that’ll get people talking about the state of our public schools.”

The Visitor Talks: Andrea Phillips

What is a public program?

Monday, October 7, 20133–5 pm

CCS Bard Seminar Room 1This talk will focus on a basic question: how do public programs, the increasingly dominant and complex adjunctive activities to exhibitions, make and organize publics? Drawing on my experience co-curating the public program of the 13th Istanbul Biennial, the events of which became heavily contested, I’d like to discuss the historically formed act of speaking to, and soliciting, a body called the public within contemporary art.

Public programs seem to symptomatise a contradiction inherent in contemporary artistic and curatorial production in that on the one hand they indicate a broad desire to open up and discuss ideas and contexts of the cultural milieu, often focusing on alternative exhibitionary and pedagogical models, and on the other they physically and semantically refranchise the basic division between the makers and recipients of intellectual production in their mode of address. They perform a function poised between two fictions; the first a fiction of egalitarian discursivity, the second a fiction of art’s cultivating civic purpose. However distributed, it seems we both need and can’t rid ourselves of the public. Can we imagine different organizational models? How might those different models impact upon questions of curatorial time, space and scale?

Dr Andrea Phillips is Reader in Fine Art and Director of PhD programmes in the Art Department at Goldsmiths. Andrea lectures and writes about the economic and social construction of publics within contemporary art. Recent publications include: Public Space (A Space Called Public, Munich 2013); Constructed Situation (Architecture as Situation, University of Edinburgh, 2013); Art Work (Describing Labour, University of Goteborg, 2013); Art as Property (Economy: Art and the Subject after Postmodernism, Liverpool University Press, 2014 forthcoming). Recent and ongoing research projects include: Actors, Agent and Attendants, a research project and set of publications that address the role of artistic and curatorial production in contemporary political milieus (in collaboration with Fulya Erdemci and SKOR 2009-2012); co-director of the research project The Aesthetic and Economic Impact of the Art Market, an investigation into the ways in which the art market shapes artists’ careers and public exhibition (in collaboration with Suhail Malik, Andrew Wheatley and Sarah Thelwall); Public Alchemy, the public programme for the Istanbul Biennial 2013 (in collaboration with Fulya Erdemci).

This talk is given as part of the lecture series The Visitor Talks : Pre-ambulation and Retrospection.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Let's Get Ratchet: Theorizing Digital Black Feminisms

A Talk by Brittney Cooper

Monday, October 7, 20136 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumBrittney Cooper is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University, and co-founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective. Her research interests include using Black feminist thought to understand contemporary articulations of Black womanhood, and she has published in both academic journals and major media outlets on this topic.

Coined as a term in the 1990s in Louisiana, "ratchet" has come to offer myriad possibilities for talking about African American working class culture, particularly its gendered dynamics among African American women. Whether discussing the origins of twerking which has a similar genealogical trajectory in the U.S. or speaking about the often tense and severe forms of African American female representation rendered on television, ratchetness embodies a whole constellation of contemporary ideas about African American womanhood. At the same time, ratchetness has been taken up by feminist identified women like those at the Crunk Feminist Collective, as a way to theorize feminist politics among working class women, as a way to critique respectability politics, and as a way to locate the operations of pleasure in Black women's cultural spaces. What then do we mean by ratchetness? How does this term and the practices to which it refers come to be raced and gendered? (e.g. Why don't we understand Kim Kardashian or Miley Cyrus to be ratchet?) How does the circulation of imagery within visual media impact our conceptualizations of ratchetness? And how might digital feminist projects be uniquely poised to intervene and redirect problematic appropriations of ratchet behavior?Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project; Experimental Humanities Program; Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.

Counting Lattice Points in Triangles and the "Fibonacci Staircase"

Thursday, October 10, 20134:40 pm

The "Ehrhart polynomial" is an important tool for counting lattice points in triangles and other polygons. An Ehrhart polynomial has a "period", and the relationship between the coordinates of the vertices of a polygon and the period of its Ehrhart polynomial can be quite mysterious. Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner will present recent joint work with Aaron Kleinman relating the periods of the Ehrhart polynomials of some simple triangles with recursive sequences like the Fibonacci numbers and the Pell numbers. Interestingly, this is linked to a curious staircase arising in a special geometry called "symplectic" geometry.Sponsored by: Mathematics Program.

Meet the MAT Open House

Thursday, October 10, 20136 pm

MAT BuildingProspective students will have an opportunity to meet with faculty and staff of the MAT program to learn about earning their Master of Arts in Teaching degree! Sponsored by: Master of Arts in Teaching Program.

Christianity as World Religion, from Constantine the Great to Elizabeth I

Friday, October 11, 201312:30–1:30 pm

St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Rd. Barrytown, NY

When the Roman Empire changed its view of Christianity, from persecuting it as a *superstitio* to accepting that it was a *religio*, the Church acclaimed Constantine as an agent of God. He returned the favor by a steady increase of privileges for Catholics, until the Empire became a Christian preserve. Once the connection between Church and State was forged, however, it provoked a series of unintended consequences that included the Reformation. That process saw the emergence of a Protestant empire at odds with Catholic claimants to the mantle of Constantine.

The lecture series begins on Friday, October 4, and continues on thefollowing Fridays: October 11, 18, 25, and November 1. All lectures in the series are sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Theology and take place at the Church of St. John the Evangelist at 1114 River Road, Barrytown, NY. Lunch is at noon consisting of soup, bread, dessert, coffee and tea at a cost of $6.00. The presentation begins at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.

Fall Break

Monday, October 14, 2013 – Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Bard College Discovery Day

Columbus Day, October 14th

Monday, October 14, 20138:30 am – 2 pm

Other locationThe day begins at 8:30 a.m. with check-in and includes campus tours of Humanities, Arts, and Sciences facilities; residence hall tours; an information session and Q&A with Admissions and Financial Aid, and more!

Wednesday, October 16, 20137–9 pm

National Climate Seminar: Goodbye Miami

Jeff Goodell, Author and Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone

Wednesday, October 16, 201312 pm

Acclaimed writer Jeff Goodell joined the National Climate Seminar to talk about the plight of low-lying regions like Miami dealing with climate change and sea level rise. Goodell has been contributing editor at Rolling Stone since 1996. He is the author of several books including his latest, How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate, and How to Cool the Planet, which won the 2011 Grantham Prize Award of Special Merit, citing it as an "immensely readable, carefully researched and groundbreaking contribution to the literature on climate change."

A Lecture by Nicole Dewandre: "Rethinking the Human Condition in a Hyperconnected Era"

Wednesday, October 16, 20137 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumThe digital transition brings us to a point where it is critical to unveil the shortcomings of the excessive centrality of the notions of control and transparency in knowledge and in action. Omniscience and omnipotence, if pushed too far, crowd out any sense of freedom, purpose and meaning, even if it is in the name of the best intentions. Hannah Arendt's notions of natality and plurality, by anchoring human freedom in beginnings rather than in sovereignty, provide grounding for revisiting the human condition in a hyperconnected era and approaching the related ethical issues with modesty, confidence and amor mundi. This operation, that we could call "arendtian axiomatic reset" allows reclaiming distinctions such as the one between public and private or the one between agents, artifacts and nature. Recognising and acknowledging plurality is of critical importance in these days where policy making seems to be lost in an endless quest of deceptive control and transparency. It is also of critical importance to counter the hegemony of the metaphors of the invisible hand, market interactions, or competition by which we frame interactions and which are all in denial of plurality. That renewed perspective opens a space to shape a digital literacy, which can enable flourishing life experiences in a hyperconnected era. Finally, reclaiming plurality leads to highlighting the fact that attention is much more than "the currency of the internet" or a commodity or an asset: it is at the core of human dignity and integrity, and needs to be protected and cherished, as it is the fluid that makes plurality at all possible.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement; Difference and Media Project; Experimental Humanities Program; Hannah Arendt Center.

Former Economist Editor Bill Emmott Presents His New Documentary, Girlfriend in a Coma

Thursday, October 17, 20136 pm

Jim Ottaway Jr. Film CenterIn this film Bill Emmott teams with Filmmaker Annalisa Piras to explore Italy’s political, economic and social decline over the past 20 years, the product of a moral collapse unmatched anywhere else in the West. Emmott’s quest to understand both “Mala Italia” and “Buona Italia” includes Interviews with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco, film director Nanni Moretti, women’s rights activist Lorella Zanardo, FIAT’s outspoken Canadian-Italian CEO Sergio Marchionne, the author of Gomorrah Roberto Saviano and many others.

Bill Emmott is an international journalist and consultant, having been editor-in-chief of The Economist from 1993-2006. The author of a dozen books, most of them about Japan and Asia, his latest book was Good Italy, Bad Italy: Why Italy must Conquer its Demons to Face the Future (Yale University Press 2012). His documentary Girlfriend in a Coma has been seen by more than two million people. Bill is also chairman of the trustees of the London Library, a trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and a member of the Swiss Re Chairman’s Advisory Panel. With Annalisa Piras, he is now working on a new documentary about the threats to the European Dream, and has co-founded The Wake Up Foundation, dedicated to research and communication about the decline of the West.Sponsored by: Division of Languages and Literature; Film and Electronic Arts Program; Historical Studies Program; Italian Studies Program.

James Clarke Chace Memorial Speaker Series

Deconstructing Holocaust Denial: how science and history are distorted to promote hate

Thursday, October 17, 20136:15–7:45 pm

BGIA, 36 West 44th Street, #1011; New York, NY 10036Kenneth Stern '75

Director on Antisemitism, Hate studies and Extremism, American Jewish Committee; author of numerous books, most recently Antisemitism Today: How It Is the Same, How It Is Different and How to Fight ItSponsored by: BGIA; Center for Civic Engagement.

Christianity as World Religion, from Constantine the Great to Elizabeth I

Friday, October 18, 201312:30–1:30 pm

St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Rd. Barrytown, NY

When the Roman Empire changed its view of Christianity, from persecuting it as a *superstitio* to accepting that it was a *religio*, the Church acclaimed Constantine as an agent of God. He returned the favor by a steady increase of privileges for Catholics, until the Empire became a Christian preserve. Once the connection between Church and State was forged, however, it provoked a series of unintended consequences that included the Reformation. That process saw the emergence of a Protestant empire at odds with Catholic claimants to the mantle of Constantine.

The lecture series begins on Friday, October 4, and continues on thefollowing Fridays: October 11, 18, 25, and November 1. All lectures in the series are sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Theology and take place at the Church of St. John the Evangelist at 1114 River Road, Barrytown, NY. Lunch is at noon consisting of soup, bread, dessert, coffee and tea at a cost of $6.00. The presentation begins at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.

Troubling Heritage: Contemporary Museums and the Terrain of the Civil War in a Southern City

Monday, October 21, 20134:30–6 pm

RKC 103Richmond Virginia, erstwhile capital of the Confederacy, is a city that memorialized in its built landscape the ideology of the “Lost Cause.” This lecture will provide a preliminary sketch for the ways that local history and art museums with national stature have responded and continue to respond to this troubling heritage as they try to create a more salutary urban imagined community. These museums are leaders in a wider movement among US cities of a certain size to explicitly link cultural development to urban renewal. As such they must attract a national audience while not alienating local communities which, for their part, are often polarized along all too familiar racial and ideological lines.

Eric Gable is a professor of anthropology at the University of Mary Washington. He is a managing editor for the journal Museum and Society and the associate editor for book reviews for American Ethnologist.

Tuesday, October 22, 20135 pm

Nanoparticles carrying three or four different cargos at their surface have emerged as leading solutions for targeted delivery of therapeutic and imaging agents. Enhanced permeation and retention of nanometer-sized materials in diseased tissues (e.g., tumors) offers a passive mechanism to improve the efficacy of drugs and imaging agents. Multivalent materials that accumulate in diseased tissues deliver locally high concentrations of the drug or imaging agent. Adding chemical markers to nanoparticles loaded with drugs or imaging agents offers a mechanism for selectively targeting the cargo to diseased tissues, and reduce side effects of the treatment. Biomedical technologies that combine targeting, therapeutic, and imaging modalities on a single theranostic nanoparticle are currently sought to simultaneously treat and image diseased tissues. A critical challenge for translating theranostic technologies based on polyvalent nanoparticles from the lab to the clinic is that each modality added to the nanoparticle creates heterogeneity and batch-to-batch variability of the product(s). We have developed a synthesis strategy to prepare a novel class of multivalent nanoparticles called multiblock dendrimers, which can incorporate three or four modalities and resolve the issues of heterogeneity and batch-to-batch variability. We further anticipate that this synthesis strategy will yield novel materials for use in “bottom-up” nanofabrication. The key to our approach is to synthesize the multiblock dendrimers from component dendrons via multicomponent reactions (e.g., the Passerini three-component reaction). The presentation will include a proof-of-concept for the synthesis strategy and report our progress toward multiblock dendrimers useful in biomedical and nanotechnology applications.

Telling Stories from Stones: Provincials of the Roman Empire in their Own Words

A lecture by Professor Andrew Johnston, Yale University

Tuesday, October 22, 20136–7 pm

Reem-Kayden CenterHis talk will investigate how we can study the Roman Empire through inscriptions, what these inscriptions tell us about the lives and identities of individuals, and how the stories of these individuals can ultimately help us develop new and more sophisticated models and understandings of the complexity of the Roman world and the processes of imperialism.Sponsored by: Classical Studies Program.

CANCELED: James Goodale “Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles”

Tuesday, October 22, 20137–9 pm

Olin, Room 102The leading force behind the New York Times’ decision to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971, James Goodale will discuss his recent book, "Fighting for the Press: The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles."

Soon after the book was published, James Goodale wrote an article based on the last few chapters: “Is Obama Worse For Press Freedom Than Nixon?” (The Daily Beast, May 14, 2013). This drew a torrent of commentary from the press. That, and subsequent articles about the dangers of criminalizing newsgathering by the Obama Administration, most certainly had an effect in getting Pfc. Bradley Manning let off the charge of committing espionage, i.e., aiding the enemy. There is no underestimating the power of the pen.

Wednesday, October 23, 20137–9 pm

Archipelago: poetry reading by Alana Siegel

Wednesday, October 23, 20137–8 pm

Reem-Kayden CenterOur alumna Alana Siegel will give a reading from her newly published book of poems, Archipelago. After graduating from the Written Arts Program a few years ago, she has lived in the Bay Area, where her first book, Occupation, was published last year. Copies of the book will be available.

This is the first in a series of poetry readings by Bard alumni/alumnae and by current Bard students,co-sponsored by the Alumni/ae office, the Student Poetry Reading Series, and the Written Arts Program.

An Interactive Lecture-Demonstration by Sitar Maestro Sugato Nag

Wednesday, October 23, 20137–8:30 pm

Olin, Room 104

Pandit (or maestro) Sugato Nag is one of the finest contemporary artistes in the North Indian classical music tradition. A sitar virtuoso, his style presents a unique synthesis of the austere classicism of the Shahjahanpore Sarode Tradition in which he was trained and the intricate beauty of the more modern Imdadkhani Style. His lecture-demonstration will focus on introducing the audience to Hindustani or North Indian classical music, especially with respect to its implementation on the sitar.

Wednesday, October 23, 20138 pm

Olin HallThe Bard College Community Jazz Orchestra, under the direction of Thurman Barker, celebrates the music of John Coltrane, featuring Patience Higgins on tenor and soprano saxophone.Sponsored by: Music Program.

Food Day!

Thursday, October 24, 201311:30 am – 2:30 pm

Kline Commons

Join us at Kline Commons on Thursday October 24th for the Chartwells National Food Day celebration! The day begins at 11:30 a.m. on the Kline terrace with a local farmer's market selling locally grown and produced products. Be sure to bring your reusable totes for all of your purchases. Come learn about Bard's participation in the Real Food Challenge with Corinna Borden, Chartwells Food Sustainability Advocate!

Additionally, Chartwells Dining Services will be hosting an all-local farmer appreciation lunch with representation from local farmers and other local providers.

We will also be sponsoring a reusable mason jar giveaway. Sign the pledge to eliminate paper waste and receive a free mason jar for your cold beverages!

All are welcome to come and participate in the many Food Day activities happening at Kline!

Poetry Reading: Omar Berrada and Sarah Riggs

The John Ashbery Poetry Series Presents: Omar Berrada and Sarah Riggs reading from their work, including bilingual translations from the Arabic and French

Thursday, October 24, 20135–6:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

Sarah Riggs is the author of Autobiography of Envelopes (Burning Deck, 2012), 60 Textos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), Waterwork (Chax Press, 2007), and Chain of Minuscule Decisions in the Form of a Feeling (Reality Street Editions, 2007). Currently she is completing a series of cinepoems called Six Lives, which include “Hudson,” “Brest,” “Brooklyn,” and “Skye.” Her book of essays, Word Sightings: Poetry and Visual Media in Stevens, Bishop, and O’Hara, was published by Routledge in 2002. She has translated or co-translated from the French the poets Isabelle Garron, Marie Borel, Etel Adnan, Ryoko Sekiguchi, and, most recently, Oscarine Bosquet. A member of the bilingual poetry collective Double Change and founder of the interart non-profit Tamaas, she lives in Paris, where she is a professor at NYU-in-France. Her new book, Pomme & Granite, is forthcoming with 1913 press.

Writer and translator Omar Berrada grew up in Casablanca and lives between France and Morocco, where he directs the library and translation center at Dar al-Ma’mûn in Marrakech. He is a member of the bilingual poetry collective Double Change and of the intercultural arts non-profit Tamaas. He has translated, alone or in company, usually into French, sometimes into English, texts by Jennifer Moxley, Rod Mengham, Lisa Jarnot, Kathleen Fraser, Stanley Cavell, Robert Glück, Kristin Prevallet, Avital Ronell, Forrest Gander, Marie Borel, Jalal Toufic, and others. He recently edited, with Erik Bullot, Expanded Translation—A Treason Treatise (2011), a book of joyful verbal and visual betrayals; and, with Yto Barrada, Album—Cinémathèque de Tanger (2012), a multilingual book about film in Tangier and Tangier on film.

Digital Faulkner

Thursday, October 24, 20136 pm

Olin, Room 204Presented by Julie Beth Napolin

This talk addresses the speculative territory of digital cartography as it is remapping our literary encounters. Julie Beth Napolin describes how the UVa "Digital Yoknapatawpha" project is addressing the theoretical and practical challenges of transforming Faulkner's ambiguous narratives into data, and then visualizing that data in a map and other displays.

Julie Beth Napolin is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. Her book in progress, The Acoustics of Narrative Involvement, places the work of Faulkner within the soundscape of global modernism, beginning with the phonograph and ending with new media aesthetics. She's published her work in Qui Parle and the edited volumes Vibratory Modernism and Fifty Years After Faulkner. Her essay on sound and vibration in Conrad was awarded the 2013 Bruce Harkness prize by the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She is currently Associate Director of Digital Yoknapatawpha, an online map of the world of Faulkner, and Associate Editor of the site's rendering of The Sound and the Fury.Sponsored by: American Studies Program; Environmental and Urban Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Literature Program.

music/sound by Antonin Fajt '14 and Math Norman '14music for church hymn and sailor songs by Ben Hopkins '14

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation.

Christianity as World Religion, from Constantine the Great to Elizabeth I

Friday, October 25, 201312:30–1:30 pm

St. John the Evangelist, 1114 River Rd. Barrytown, NY

When the Roman Empire changed its view of Christianity, from persecuting it as a *superstitio* to accepting that it was a *religio*, the Church acclaimed Constantine as an agent of God. He returned the favor by a steady increase of privileges for Catholics, until the Empire became a Christian preserve. Once the connection between Church and State was forged, however, it provoked a series of unintended consequences that included the Reformation. That process saw the emergence of a Protestant empire at odds with Catholic claimants to the mantle of Constantine.

The lecture series begins on Friday, October 4, and continues on thefollowing Fridays: October 11, 18, 25, and November 1. All lectures in the series are sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Theology and take place at the Church of St. John the Evangelist at 1114 River Road, Barrytown, NY. Lunch is at noon consisting of soup, bread, dessert, coffee and tea at a cost of $6.00. The presentation begins at 12:30 p.m. followed by a question and answer period.

Family Weekend–Alumni/ae Day 2013

Friday, October 25, 2013 – Sunday, October 27, 2013

Annandale-on-HudsonEnjoy a variety of events on campus, including What's New at Bard, Ask the President Forum, sample classes, performances by the American Symphony Orchestra, campus tours, and panel discussions. Special events will be held for alumni/ae, including a reception with President Leon Botstein and the Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Dean of Student Affairs.

As Europeans in the 17th and 18th Century attested, French and Italian musical styles were as opposed as night and day. Francois Raguenet described these contrasting national tastes in 1702, stating, “It is not to be wondered that the Italians think our musick dull and stupefying…the French aim at the soft, easie, the flowing, and coherent.” In 1716 Francois Couperin quipped that the Italians “play our music less well than we play theirs.” Given their many stylistic antagonisms, composers from these two cultures might be said to comprise rival if not warring musical families.

In this eclectic and entertaining program befitting Family Weekend, the talented student musicians of the Bard Baroque Ensemble illustrate these dramatic contrasts through the lush French suites of Lully and Philidor, the electrifying Italian concerti of Corelli and Albinoni, the tender court songs of Michel Lambert, and the volatile arias of Alessandro Scarlatti.Sponsored by: Music Program.

Faculty Round Table: Humanitarian Intervention

Friday, October 25, 20136:30–7:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumBard faculty members Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities, Michelle Murray, Assistant Professor of Political Studies, and Peter Rosenblum, Professor International Law and Human Rights, will discuss the advantages, disadvantages, and implications of humanitarian intervention. Sponsored by the Bard Debate Union and the Center for Civic Engagement.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

music/sound by Antonin Fajt '14 and Math Norman '14music for church hymn and sailor songs by Ben Hopkins '14

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation.

Public Debate: Humanitarian Intervention

Friday, October 25, 20137:30–8:30 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 AuditoriumWhen is humanitarian intervention justified? What are its advantages and disadvantages. Following the faculty round table on this same subject, members of the Bard Debate Union will put on a public debate on this issue of grave contemporary concern.Sponsored by: Center for Civic Engagement.

American Symphony Orchestra Concert One

Friday, October 25, 20138 pm

Founded in 1962 by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, the American Symphony Orchestra continues its mission to demystify orchestral music, and make it accessible and affordable to everyone. Under music director Leon Botstein, the ASO has pioneered what the Wall Street Journal called “a new concept in orchestras,” presenting concerts in the Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall curated around various themes from the visual arts, literature, politics, and history, and unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival. At Bard College, the ASO appears in an annual winter subscription series at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, and also takes part in the Bard Music Festival and SummerScape.

In addition to many albums released on the Telarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, and Vanguard labels, live performances by the American Symphony are now available for digital download. In many cases, these are the only existing recordings of some of the rare works that have been rediscovered in ASO performances.

Featured soloists for the ASO’s fall-spring season include Bard College Conservatory of Music students and Concerto Competition winners Fanya Wyrick-Flax, Dongfang Ouyang, and Zhi Ma.

Concert One

Igor StravinskyPetrushka

Avner DormanPiccolo ConcertoFanya Wyrick-Flax ’13, piccolo

Felix MendelssohnSymphony No. 5, Op. 107 ("Reformation")Running time for this concert is approximately one hour and 25 minutes, with one 20-minute intermission.Programs and performances are subject to change.

Family Weekend–Alumni/ae Day 2013

Friday, October 25, 2013 – Sunday, October 27, 2013

Annandale-on-HudsonEnjoy a variety of events on campus, including What's New at Bard, Ask the President Forum, sample classes, performances by the American Symphony Orchestra, campus tours, and panel discussions. Special events will be held for alumni/ae, including a reception with President Leon Botstein and the Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Dean of Student Affairs.

How We Feed Ourselves. A Look at Large- and Small-Scale Farming Practices in the U.S.: Can We Feed Ourselves and Protect Our Natural Resources?

A Panel Discussion

Saturday, October 26, 20131:15–2:15 pm

Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

This panel discussion highlights the current challenges facing the agricultural industry in America as it tries to feed a growing population with limited and declining natural resources. Panelists will cover a range of controversial topics about the food we eat, everything from public health and environmental impacts, to tax policy and access to land, to protection of natural resources. Panelists Eshel, Feder, and Phillips are Bard College faculty in both the undergraduate Environmental and Urban Studies program and Bard Center for Environmental Policy graduate program. We hope you can join us.

Gidon Eshel, Research Professor of Physics and Environmental Science, Bard College (bio here)

Dr. Eshel will discuss the public health and environmental impacts of food production and consumption in the U.S., with a focus on food-related environmental footprint minimization through diet modification and shorter supply chains. Feeding the nation has a massive environmental imprint. As a sector, food-related greenhouse gas emissions are only modestly smaller than those of the two largest sectors, industry and built environments. The food sector is by far the largest consumptive potable water user in the U.S., and in most industrial nations, and it is the overwhelmingly dominant source of algae-generated water pollution. Along with a sedentary lifestyle, the U.S. food system is also the most significant source of degenerative diseases, with a price tag that is hard to unambiguously characterize, but is undoubtedly in the billions, and with a clear adverse impact on expected human lifespan. The public health and environmental costs of the U.S. food system are intimately related; with few important exceptions, what is environmentally costly will also undermine your health. Can these two problems be tackled in concert? Dr. Eshel will talk about how the price of tackling them together is far smaller than the sum of their individual costs. Kris Feder, Associate Professor of Economics; Co-Director, Environmental and Urban Studies, Bard College(bio here)

Dr. Feder will discuss how U.S. tax policies systematically favor large farms over small, favor energy- and capital-intensive methods over labor- and skill-intensive methods, and favor ecologically destructive practices over ecologically sound ones. These tax policies also raise farmland prices and make it harder for small farmers to get access to land—particularly near urban markets. Correcting these tax biases would raise needed revenues and promote efficient land management while reestablishing the family farm as a pillar of American culture.

Dr. Phillips will discuss two competing paradigms for how to conserve "nature" and still produce enough food for 9—10 billion people - we can increase high input farming intensity in "sacrifice zones" or we can transition to a managed agroecosystem approach that combines protection of natural resources with food production but is likely to use more land. Both approaches have merit but she argues that the latter, integrated method that includes high levels of planned and unplanned biodiversity, rotationally grazed livestock, and substitution of knowledge and labor for fossil fuel inputs can help protect water, soil quality and biodiversity, can support carbon sequestration, and will reduce the footprint of farming on natural resource use.

Moby Dick—Rehearsed By Orson Welles

Saturday, October 26, 20132 pm

directed by Jonathan Rosenbergdesigned by Zane Pihlstromlights by Bruce Steinbergvideo by Joshua Thorson

music/sound by Antonin Fajt '14 and Math Norman '14music for church hymn and sailor songs by Ben Hopkins '14

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation.

music/sound by Antonin Fajt '14 and Math Norman '14music for church hymn and sailor songs by Ben Hopkins '14

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation.

American Symphony Orchestra Concert One

Saturday, October 26, 20138 pm

Founded in 1962 by legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, the American Symphony Orchestra continues its mission to demystify orchestral music, and make it accessible and affordable to everyone. Under music director Leon Botstein, the ASO has pioneered what the Wall Street Journal called “a new concept in orchestras,” presenting concerts in the Vanguard Series at Carnegie Hall curated around various themes from the visual arts, literature, politics, and history, and unearthing rarely performed masterworks for well-deserved revival. At Bard College, the ASO appears in an annual winter subscription series at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, and also takes part in the Bard Music Festival and SummerScape.

In addition to many albums released on the Telarc, New World, Bridge, Koch, and Vanguard labels, live performances by the American Symphony are now available for digital download. In many cases, these are the only existing recordings of some of the rare works that have been rediscovered in ASO performances.

Featured soloists for the ASO’s fall-spring season include Bard College Conservatory of Music students and Concerto Competition winners Fanya Wyrick-Flax, Dongfang Ouyang, and Zhi Ma.

Concert One

Igor StravinskyPetrushka

Avner DormanPiccolo ConcertoFanya Wyrick-Flax ’13, piccolo

Felix MendelssohnSymphony No. 5, Op. 107 ("Reformation")Running time for this concert is approximately one hour and 25 minutes, with one 20-minute intermission.

Family Weekend–Alumni/ae Day 2013

Friday, October 25, 2013 – Sunday, October 27, 2013

Annandale-on-HudsonEnjoy a variety of events on campus, including What's New at Bard, Ask the President Forum, sample classes, performances by the American Symphony Orchestra, campus tours, and panel discussions. Special events will be held for alumni/ae, including a reception with President Leon Botstein and the Bard-St. Stephen's Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors.Sponsored by: Bard College Alumni/ae Association; Dean of Student Affairs.

music/sound by Antonin Fajt '14 and Math Norman '14music for church hymn and sailor songs by Ben Hopkins '14

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a 1955 play by Orson Welles in which a company of actors gathers in a rehearsal room to work on an adaptation of the Herman Melville novel. In Welles’s dramatic experiment the rehearsal is the performance, and a door is opened on the act of theatrical creation.

Monday, October 28, 201312:30–2 pm

The Visitor Talks: Sally Tallant

Monday, October 28, 20133–5 pm

CCS Bard Seminar Room 1Sally Tallant is the Director of Liverpool Biennial – The UK Biennial of International Contemporary Art.

From 2001 – 11, she was Head of Programmes at the Serpentine Gallery, London where she was responsible for the development and delivery of an integrated programme of Exhibitions, Architecture, Education and Public Programmes. She has curated exhibitions in a wide range of contexts including the Hayward Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Hospitals, Schools as well as public commissions. She has developed commissioning programmes for artists in a range of contexts and developed long-term projects including The Edgware Road Project, Skills Exchange and Disassembly. She has also curated performances, sound events, film programmes and conferences including initiating the Park Nights series in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilions and co-curating the Serpentine Gallery Marathon series with Hans Ulrich Obrist. She is a regular contributor to conferences nationally and internationally.Sponsored by: Center for Curatorial Studies.

Monday, October 28, 20136:30–8 pm

Olin, Room 102Our politics have been so divided in recent years that our national debate is increasingly turning to the Constitution and its fundamental principles.

Seth Lipsky, the author of "The Citizen's Constitution: An Annotated Guide," has been described in the Boston Globe as "a legendary figure in contemporary journalism," and on TheAtlantic.com as possessing "the most interesting mind in journalism." He has also been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing.

Lipsky will be a Visiting Professor at Bard in the Spring 2014 Semester and teach a course: "How to Form an Opinion." He writes: "This course focuses not on what to think but on how to form an opinion and write an essay, column or blog posting that will get past an editor and into print. Emphasis is laid on the role of reporting and on the competitive nature of journalism."

The founding editor of The New York Sun, Mr. Lipsky is a veteran of The Wall Street Journal, where he was formerly foreign editor and a member of the editorial board. Mr. Lipsky was a private soldier in the United States Army and combat correspondent in Vietnam for Pacific Stars and Stripes.

BGIA Information Session

Learn more about the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program.

Tuesday, October 29, 201312–1:30 pm

Campus Center, Weis CinemaJoin BGIA Director Jonathan Cristol and Associate Director Mia McCully for an information session on the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program (BGIA). BGIA provides students, of all majors, with the opportunity to engage in the study and practice of international relations through internships and coursework in New York City. The program is offered in the spring, summer, and fall. Sponsored by: BGIA.

"From the Shtetl to the Lecture Hall: Jewish Women in 19th Century Europe"

A Lecture by Luise Hirsch

Tuesday, October 29, 20135 pm

Campus Center, Weis CinemaWhen Europe’s graduate schools began to open their doors to female students in the second half of the 19th century, they were primarily responding to the requests of Jewish women from Russia. Often family breadwinners encouraged to be independent and assertive, they more than other women fought their way into the hitherto exclusively male world of academia. Banned from universities at home, they made Swiss graduate schools the first institutions in the world to train female professionals.

Luise Hirsch was educated at the University of Heidelberg and at Freie Universität Berlin and earned a doctorate in Jewish History from the University of Duisburg in 2005. She lives in Heidelberg and Berlin and works as an author and translator.Sponsored by: Gender and Sexuality Studies Program; Jewish Studies Program.

Margaret Gray: Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic

Tuesday, October 29, 20137–9 pm

Olin, Room 102Associate Professor of Political Science at Adelphi University, Margaret Gray will discuss her new book about migrant labor in the Hudson Valley, Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic.

In the blizzard of attention around the virtues of local food production, food writers and activists place environmental protection, animal welfare, and saving small farms at the forefront of their attention. Yet amid this turn to wholesome and responsible food choices, the lives and working conditions of farmworkers are often an afterthought.

Labor and the Locavore focuses on one of the most vibrant local food economies in the country, the Hudson Valley that supplies New York restaurants and farmers markets. Based on more than a decade’s in-depth interviews with workers, farmers, and others, Gray’s examination clearly shows how the currency of agrarian values serves to mask the labor concerns of an already hidden workforce.

She also explores the historical roots of farmworkers’ predicaments and examines the ethnic shift from Black to Latino workers. With an analysis that can be applied to local food concerns around the country, this book challenges the reader to consider how the mentality of the alternative food movements implies a comprehensive food ethic that addresses workers’ concerns.Sponsored by: Difference and Media Project; Human Rights Program; Human Rights Project; LAIS Program; Spanish Studies.

Wednesday, October 30, 20137–9 pm

The Cuban Argument with Itself

Presented by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

Wednesday, October 30, 20136:30 pm

Fisher Center, Resnick Theater StudioReviewing the history of censorship and political intolerance in Miami and Havana suggests that these two centers of Cuban politics might be engaged in processes of polarization that often operate in concert with each other and have proved integral to the maintenance of the United States trade embargo against Cuba. As one antidote to this long standing polarization, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas will review the efforts of Cuban and Cuban American theater artists who have for decades been organizing to subvert the embargo, noting the successful ways these artists have begun to normalize exchange and travel between the United States and Cuba.Sponsored by: Bard Theater and Performance Program.

Empire Under Siege: The Satirical Journals of the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907

Presented by Oleg Minin

Wednesday, October 30, 20137 pm

Olin, Room 102

The satirical journals that proliferated across the Russian Empire during the 1905 Revolution offer a rich and paradoxical portrait of one of the most complex and exciting episodes in Russia’s modern history and culture. On the one hand, the journals describe the impotence of the ancien regime headed by imperial Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, and the exuberance of popular liberation. On the other, they comment on the government response and the political developments of the revolutionary period often as a nightmare of demons, vampires, monsters, skeletons, executions, anti-Semitic pogroms, rapes and assassinations. Focusing on this special moment in Russian history and culture in general and in the evolution of Russia’s satirical press in particular, in this talk I will discuss the social and political developments (c. 1905-6) that gave rise to the unprecedented Empire-wide proliferation of politicized satirical press and address a host of important issues relating to the journals’ political leanings, censorship, financial considerations, visual and literary content and, significantly, targets of satire, of which the Empire itself became one.

Please join us for a reception at 6:30 p.m. in the Olin Atrium.

Oleg's talk will be accompanied by a concurrent, eponymous exhibition at the Stevenson library, under the skylights on the second floor of Kellogg.

Curated by Oleg, this exhibition opens on October 23 and runs through November 29, 2013.

In the Name of the Bara

Internet Circulation, Queer Identity, and Gay Manga Subcultures

Thursday, October 31, 20136 pm

Campus Center, Weis Cinema

A Presentation by Anne Ishii

The Internet has been a key force in the circulation of queer and underground manga (comics) beyond Japan. But, as information technologies have evolved over the past decades, so have the politics and practices of queer identity-making. This talk will examine the roles of online communication in changing genres and identifications in queer Japanese manga within its local and global contexts.

Anne Ishii is a writer, producer, editor, and translator based in New York City. She has translated over 20 manga titles, including "Loups Garous" by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, and "Detroit Metal City," a spectacularly raunchy ten-volume manga about an indie rock kid with a black metal alter-ego. She runs Massive, which introduces gay Japanese manga and paraphernalia to an Anglophone audience.